Recently I reported a small bug in optim's SANN method failing to report
that it had exceeded the maximum function evaluation limit in the
convergence code. This is a small enough matter that I was reluctant to
create a full-blown bug report. Indeed in the optimx package Ravi
Varadhan and I have been developing on r-forge (under the OptimizeR
project) it was a minimal work around to fix the matter in our wrapper
that incorporates optim() and a number of other tools. While I don't
normally do C code, I could likely figure out a fix for optim too.
My query is about how to best get this done without causing a lot of
work for others i.e., where to I send patches etc. I expect there are a
number of similar issues for different areas of R and its documentation,
and a clarification from someone in the core team could streamline
things. Maybe the bug system is still the right place?
Cheers, JN